University College London

UCL has a global reputation for excellence in research and is committed to delivering impact and innovations that enhance the lives of people in the UK, across Europe and around the world. UCL was identified by the UK Research Excellence Framework as the top university in the UK for research strength (2018) and UCL is consistently placed in the global top 20 across a wide range of university rankings (currently =7th in the QS World Rankings). The Department of Geography is currently in the top 10 in the QS subject rankings and the Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), within Geography, is a world-leading interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching and public engagement. The ECRC is concerned with environmental change on a range of time scales, past, present and future, with particular emphasis on lake, pond, river ecology and palaeolimnology. Within the ECRC the UCL Pond Restoration Research Group (PRRG) specialises in pond conservation and restoration. Among other projects, it has been involved in PONDERFUL. For more information please check: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/